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'''The Battle of the Pine''' is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an attack on a British army vehicle by the EOKA on 24 November 1955, two days before the declaration of the [[Cyprus Emergency]]. |
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'''The Battle of the Pine''' is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an attack on a British army vehicle by the EOKA on 24 November 1955, two days before the declaration of the [[Cyprus Emergency]]. A team of [[EOKA]] guerrillas ambushed the vehicles on the road from Kyperounda to Chandria killing one soldier, Sapper Robert Melson.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/OnlineBooks/BritishCyprusMemTrust/Celebrations/RemembrancePages/960|title = Pte George McRuvie | Remembrance Pages Page 961 | the British Cyprus Memorial Trust}}</ref><ref>[http://ermis.lib.ucy.ac.cy/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe?e=d-00000-00---0eokabook--00-0--...-10-0---0---0prompt-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-help---00-0-1-00-11-1-0utfZz-8-10&a=d&c=eokabook&cl=CL2.1&d=HASHd1c128f808c2ebf1a3d64f.7 "Chapter 4 Harding strives to suppress the EOKA movement and give a political solution to the Cyprus problem but without success - Archbishop Makarios is exiled to the Seychelles (3 October 1955 - 9 March 1956)", ''A history of the liberation struggle of EOKA (1955-1959)''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108062123/http://ermis.lib.ucy.ac.cy/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.exe?e=d-00000-00---0eokabook--00-0--...-10-0---0---0prompt-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-help---00-0-1-00-11-1-0utfZz-8-10&a=d&c=eokabook&cl=CL2.1&d=HASHd1c128f808c2ebf1a3d64f.7 |date=January 8, 2014 }} accessed 7 November 2013</ref> |
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Revision as of 17:24, 6 February 2024
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 United Kingdom | EOKA | ||||||
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| George Grivas | |||||||
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The Battle of the Pine is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an attack on a British army vehicle by the EOKA on 24 November 1955, two days before the declaration of the Cyprus Emergency.
British troops
shot dead a Cypriot who failed
to answer a challenge in the
area where terrorists killed a
British soldier the Day before.
The Incident occurred near
Khandria, 40 miles south-west
of Nicosia, where terrorists also on the same Day ambushed two army
vehicles, killing a Royal En-
gineers private and wounding
an officer and another private.
Commandos shot the Cypriot
today as he ran away towards
the village of Kyperounda,
after falling to answer their
challenge.
The next day British troops shot dead a Cypriot who approached the vehicle in which Downing died and failed to answer challenges from British soldiers.[1]
This was one of several comparable incidents at the times which resulted in the deaths of several British servicemen and contributed to the declaration of a State of Emergency on the island.[2]
References
- ^ "Shots Fired In Cyprus". The Central Queensland Herald. Rockhampton, Qld. 1 December 1955. p. 12. Retrieved 6 August 2014 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "State Of Emergency Declared In Cyprus". The Canberra Times. 28 November 1955. p. 1. Retrieved 11 November 2015 – via National Library of Australia.